Posted on 04/21/2008 12:40:09 PM PDT by BGHater
China has launched an "education" campaign in Tibet it says is designed to undermine support for the Dalai Lama and any separatist sentiment.
The Tibet Daily newspaper said the campaign was to "unify the thinking... of officials and the masses".
The initiative follows violent clashes last month between police and monks in Tibet, and pro-Tibetan demonstrations around the world.
Beijing has accused the Dalai Lama of inciting unrest - claims he has denied.
The Tibetan spiritual leader, who lives in exile in India, insists he has no political role and played no part in the protests by Tibetan Buddhist monks that erupted into rioting in the main city Lhasa.
But he condemned the Chinese crackdown that followed, and accused Beijing of committing "cultural genocide" in Tibet.
Tibetan sympathisers and human rights activists have since used the worldwide tour of the Olympic torch to protest against Beijing's hosting of the Olympic Games this August.
Security tightened
China's Communist Party has long used what it calls "patriotic education campaigns" to impose discipline and reinforce its authority, says the BBC's Daniel Griffiths in Beijing.
The Tibet Daily says the latest drive will include television programmes and a series of sessions in which the Dalai Lama will be denounced by Communist Party members, other officials and local people.
Campaigns requiring monks in Tibetan monasteries to denounce the Dalai Lama and declare their loyalty to Beijing have also been stepped up.
China has poured troops into Tibet and tightened its borders ahead of the passage of the Olympic flame through the territory, on its way to Mount Everest in early May.
It accuses the Dalai Lama of wanting to divide Tibet from China and sabotage the Olympics.
Probably with textbooks written in Hanoi.
Interesting. FR has another thread about China educating Tibetans: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1350794/posts
Maybe Obama can take notes, for future application?
Yeah, I'm sure that will work.
We need to come up with an effective way to educate the Chinese.
But I went to have a look at the thread you linked, and I really don't see any evidence there that the execution shown is somehow linked to the Tibetan cause. Did I not read far enough?
ML/NJ
The girl was executed for discussing Tibetan independence with her friends.
“All power flows from a gun barrel” - Mao Tse Tung
‘Beijing orchestrating Tibet riots’
Agents Provocateur? ["Tibetan supporter" who attacked torch bearer may be Chinese agent]
China salaries overseas Chinese for anti-Tibetan protests (rent-a-mob: $350 per head)
Ero news- China shoots fleeing Tibetan refuges Video footage
ML/NJ
Ah so rittle glasshoppa We go back to day of Cultural Levorution.
Could you provide a link to that information? So far I have found, from skimming through the comments, that she was accused of murder.
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